Commentary: Red Sox run may reshape MLB free agency

8:38 AM,
Nov. 1, 2013

Written by

Bob Nightengale
USA Today

Jonny Gomes, who a night earlier was running around Fenway Park, with a camera strapped to his Army helmet, goggles hanging from his neck, and waving a Boston Red Sox World Series championship flag, was totally bored Thursday.

There was no place to go. Nothing to do. No game to play.

"I've never had this feeling before," Gomes, the nine-year veteran outfielder, said Thursday afternoon. "Your season normally ends with a loss. You lose, you go back, pack your bags and fly home. That closes the door on your season. ...